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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 4484929, member: 97383&quot;]willieboyd2, That&#039;s a good question that I never gave much thought <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. In the 67 page essay I read for this article by Philip Gierson, <i>Byzantine Coinage</i>, he didn&#039;t identify the exact location within Constantinople where the mints were located. What you stated make sense <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Gold coinage was most likely made within the confines of the imperial palace where the treasury was located. Constantinople was a heavily fortified city, about as difficult to breach as the island of Alcatraz <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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